After creating and blogging the original image and recipe several weeks ago, we teamed up with the famous US Artist and print technique innovator, Bonny Pierce Lhotka to host a small taster pack of her highly original textures. To try out Bonny’s Nature bits taster pack, I used my ready flypaper textured image, and was thrilled by the result!
The complete Naturalbits taster pack was loaded into Russel Brown’s Automated Photoshop panel and just one texture was used.
Bonny’s texture created an extra depth and another layer of interest, enhancing our flypaper edges!
We re-print the original image recipe below the recipe for the header image.
AlphaBits – Soft Light @ 63% gently removed from still life with a soft brush. From the NaturalBits Taster Pack
For this shoot I’d already tried them in a retro tin enamel jug, the look was totally different, and it just used window light, but it was lacking something, it was basically too much of a dead life!
The next day I took this all too modern looking colander back to my little house studio with another idea, I would try a kind of rich Dutch still life,
But today having learned from my previous days dud shoot, I brought in the big guns, my very under used pro-lighting Cactus soft box, I have three but only used one here, small steps Grasshopper!
I placed it very low it at the side, about a foot to the left, and peeled back the corner of the outer transparent gauze around 6 inches to let a bit more direct light onto the front of the subject, creating a kind-of double wrap-around light effect that worked a treat.
Shooting with my Lensbaby with the new Optic 80 on a tripod, with the window also from the left, but behind the camera.
The black background was a simple children’s blackboard, I’d found at the communal bins.
To get the painterly effect I first ran it through the colour noise filter in CS5, and used the Paint daubs and water colour filters, the base image shown has had the de-noise process already.
Processing, took a long time, as I’ve never shot a black background before, I tried many combos, and where-as they added a richness, I still wasn’t happy, so finally, going against the grain, I pulled out the antique edges and bingo, the first choice texture added grunge interest to the black, and a lovely iridescent purple edge, used with the Pin Light filter.
Further cleaning up was done, I removed the bigger scratches and back ‘holes’ in the edge grunge, but here I’m showing the pre- finished version.
I’m now looking forward to boiling these beauties, and dancing with the devil, with a little lemon and lashings of hot garlic butter!
Rose Blush – Soft Light @ 100% Colour desaturated
Europium – Saturation @ 39%
Oxford Parchment – Soft Light @ 100% Brushed away from everything but the still life
Purple Haze – Overlay @ 73 %
Fly Edge number 10 – Pin Light @ 24% Brushed away from still life
Fly Edge number 10 – Pin Light @ 24%
Finally, a base image copy – Normal @ 16% Brushed away from base and still life
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